Saint Augustine, The City of God Book XVI, Chapter 2
(Ham is cursed through Canaan, associating Ham's lineage with the city of the wicked, or heretics, Implying reprobation as separation from God's favor.) newadvent.org/fathers/120116…
Ibid, Chapter 3
(Reiterates the curse on Canaan as extending to Ham's descendants, counting 31 descendants and linking them to nations under divine judgment or subjugation.)
Alcuin of York (796–804), Questions and Answers on Genesis (Ascribes unchastity and moral inferiority to Ham's descendants due to the curse, implying inherited reprobation leading to giants from mixed unions, Which are proud, rude, and strong but sinful.) ia800205.us.archive.org/3/items/questi…
Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Commentary to Genesis and Exodus
There are other references one can find commented on in David M. Goldberg's "The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"
Slavery is not considered a sin by the Saints, To name a few St. Augustine in The City of God, Book XIX, Chapter 15 where he even states Ham was branded a slave:
Saint John Chrysostom in his Homily 22 on Ephesians:
Saint John Chrysostom in his Homily 19 on First Corinthians
Saint Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit (Ch. 20)
Saint Peter of Alexandria, Canonical Epistle, Canons 6-7
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St. Augustine in his "On Marriage and virginity" gives a valid and good explanation to how something such as mixed-marriages can be lawful by not being condemned by God, Yet bad by natural law, Something that should not be done and should be avoided/prohibited: 🧵
St. Augustine asserts that there is a category of actions that are "lawful" but not "beneficial". He states that things that are allowed (not forbidden by any commandment of God) should be dealt with in the way that does most good.
Therefore, a mixed-race marriage falls under the category of "permitted by justice" (since no divine law explicitly forbids it), but it is classified as not good as it introduces harm in the temporal or generative sphere.
AGAINST THE CLAIM NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMANY WAS STATE CAPITALIST: 🧵
We may define State Capitalism as the workers not meaningfully controlling the means of production and the existence of capitalist social relations and production for profit in a State.
A defining feature of capitalism is the private owner's right to manage property for personal profit. The National Socialist framework rejected the concept of absolute property rights. Ownership was conditional on service to the state: (Interview with Richard Breiting, 1931)